The next blog in our Top Tips for Health Teaching series considers critical appraisal training. This was one of the presentations at our Knowledge Sharing Workshop event in September 2025, entitled “How I shed my armbands and began to enjoy swimming in the critical appraisal activities pool!” and outlines the experiences of Sarah Gardner, Clinical […]
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The next blog in our Top Tips for Health Teaching series looks at a case study from Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This was one of the presentations at our Knowledge Sharing Workshop event in September 2025 and focused on how we at Berkshire Healthcare Library and Knowledge Service have had to adapt and evolve
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Information Literacy, data and evidence removal in the US on Thu 26 Feb 2026 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cilipinformationliteracygroup/2014393 During the US government shutdown in October and November of last year, many of us saw the notice on the PubMed website warning that information on the site may not be being updated. For many
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In September, we held an event for health librarians (and anyone else interested) called Top Tips for Health Teaching: a Knowledge Sharing Workshop. The aim of this event was for those who teach health staff to come together in a safe space to share their experiences, feelings and top tips about teaching and training. The
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Top tips in health teaching: a knowledge sharing workshop Thursday 4th September from 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Get your tickets here! Are you an NHS librarian who wants to know more about teaching literature searching, critical appraisal, and reflective practice? We are running an event for health librarians, and others who offer teaching and
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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Wednesday 21st May at 12.00pm-1.30pm using Teams. As an added bonus this year we are including presentations from two of our LILAC 2025 speakers, for our members who weren’t able to attend LILAC (or just couldn’t get to all
By Katie Smith, Information Literacy Group Health Sector Representative. __________________________________________________________ Our favourite models for appraising health information and the best times to use them. Many health information professionals will deliver sessions on appraising health information and we’ll probably use a nifty, memorable mnemonic or two. Demonstrating a checklist to appraise health information can be a
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Want to submit an abstract for LILAC but lacking inspiration? Fear not! ILG’s committee members have gathered their thoughts and produced a list of topics to choose from. Take your pick, and remember we are also peer-reviewing abstracts this year! General Cross-sector collaboration, e.g. health libraries partnering with public libraries for health information literacy initiatives.
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Health Literacy Month: campaigning for better health outcomes The first of October marks the start of #HealthLiteracyMonth, a month-long campaign to raise awareness of health literacy issues and promote techniques to improve our understanding of health information. What is health literacy? The US Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2020) defines personal health literacy
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Join our team! The CILIP Information Literacy Group has an exciting opportunity to join the team as our Health Sector Representative; the role offers a great opportunity to become more involved with the work of the ILG, learn new skills, network, and help advocate for information literacy. The role We currently have a vacancy for a Health
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